Question regarding choosing a GHOP winner

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Angela Byron

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Feb 4, 2008, 2:53:17 PM2/4/08
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The official contest rules say:

"Open Source Organizations will judge each Entry according to the following equally weighted factors: (1) Creativity, (2) Thoroughness, (3) Quality of Work, and (4) Open Source Community Involvement. Each Open Source Organization will then determine the Participant with the highest overall score for Completed Tasks set by that Organization (Grand Prize Winner)"

Is there some sort of spreadsheet we'll be expected to turn in with the scores each completed task, or can we just say, "We picked $student"?

Leslie Hawthorn

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Feb 4, 2008, 5:38:43 PM2/4/08
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Hi Angie,


Nope, you just need to let me know, in private mail, which student you selected, along with a brief blurb about why, e.g.:

"Jane Doe was selected as the Grand Prize Winner for Project X because of her great contributions to the documentation for our installer.  However, what really made Jane stand out to us was her tireless efforts to answer the questions of her fellow GHOP students; she answered many questions for us in IRC and on the mailing lists promptly and with a great attitude."

Or something like that....

So how are folks going on selecting their Grand Prize Winners?  If folks could let me know now so I can start planning for the required changes to code.google.com/opensource/ghop/ now, that would be great.

Cheers,
LH

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Angela Byron

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Feb 4, 2008, 5:50:44 PM2/4/08
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On Feb 4, 2008 2:38 PM, Leslie Hawthorn <lhaw...@google.com> wrote:
Hi Angie,

On Feb 4, 2008 11:53 AM, Angela Byron <webchic...@gmail.com> wrote:
The official contest rules say:

"Open Source Organizations will judge each Entry according to the following equally weighted factors: (1) Creativity, (2) Thoroughness, (3) Quality of Work, and (4) Open Source Community Involvement. Each Open Source Organization will then determine the Participant with the highest overall score for Completed Tasks set by that Organization (Grand Prize Winner)"

Is there some sort of spreadsheet we'll be expected to turn in with the scores each completed task, or can we just say, "We picked $student"?

Nope, you just need to let me know, in private mail, which student you selected, along with a brief blurb about why, e.g.:

"Jane Doe was selected as the Grand Prize Winner for Project X because of her great contributions to the documentation for our installer.  However, what really made Jane stand out to us was her tireless efforts to answer the questions of her fellow GHOP students; she answered many questions for us in IRC and on the mailing lists promptly and with a great attitude."

That is /very/ welcome news. Thanks so much! We'll be getting back to you about our winner once we've deliberated for quite some time. Too many awesome students... this is going to be tough.

-Angie


Leslie Hawthorn

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Feb 4, 2008, 6:14:43 PM2/4/08
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 At least it's the good kind of tough - thanks for the update!

How are things going for the rest of you deliberations-wise?

Cheers,
LH

Amy Stephen

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Feb 4, 2008, 7:00:21 PM2/4/08
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We have started evaluating each of the tasks for the four indicators. We are making good progress although we certainly agree with Angie that it will not be easy (or even enjoyable, truth told) So very many of these contestants were awesome.

Thanks,
Amy :)
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Leslie Hawthorn

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Feb 4, 2008, 7:08:05 PM2/4/08
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Thanks for the update, Amy.  Everyone else, please sound off.  :)

Titus Brown

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Feb 4, 2008, 10:10:46 PM2/4/08
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:38:43PM -0800, Leslie Hawthorn wrote:
-> So how are folks going on selecting their Grand Prize Winners? If folks
-> could let me know now so I can start planning for the required changes to
-> code.google.com/opensource/ghop/ now, that would be great.

We could tell you -- but then we'd have to kill you...

Seriously, we had a brief discussion that narrowed down the candidates
pretty well. I'm not sure what to do next; just have every mentor vote?

--titus the non-autocrat :)

Leslie Hawthorn

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Feb 4, 2008, 11:43:49 PM2/4/08
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On Feb 4, 2008 7:10 PM, Titus Brown <ti...@caltech.edu> wrote:

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:38:43PM -0800, Leslie Hawthorn wrote:
-> So how are folks going on selecting their Grand Prize Winners?  If folks
-> could let me know now so I can start planning for the required changes to
-> code.google.com/opensource/ghop/ now, that would be great.

We could tell you -- but then we'd have to kill you...

If the jetlag doesn't get me first.  :)


Seriously, we had a brief discussion that narrowed down the candidates
pretty well.  I'm not sure what to do next; just have every mentor vote?

IMHO, voting works very well.  

Cheers,
LH

Bertrand Delacretaz

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Feb 5, 2008, 3:18:53 AM2/5/08
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On Feb 5, 2008 1:08 AM, Leslie Hawthorn <lhaw...@google.com> wrote:
> ...Thanks for the update, Amy. Everyone else, please sound off. :)...

At the ASF we identified a few potential Grand Prize candidates a few
days ago, I'll get the ball rolling on a final selection.

-Bertrand

Vincent Untz

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Feb 5, 2008, 4:47:18 AM2/5/08
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Le lundi 04 février 2008, à 15:14 -0800, Leslie Hawthorn a écrit :
> How are things going for the rest of you deliberations-wise?

Andre Klapper (who really did most of the day-to-day GHOP work for
GNOME) identified four candidates, and now, we're just not sure how to
choose the winner. I guess it means it's a tough choice ;-)

Vincent

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Helen Foster

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Feb 5, 2008, 4:19:03 PM2/5/08
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Hi Leslie,

We have a short list of five participants for Moodle. We'll choose our
grand prize winner once all mentors in different timezones have had
chance to comment.

Helen


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